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Honey in training to have nose for sugar
PIONEERING TEAM: Dog trainer Carien Meyer with Honey, the golden retriever she is training to be a diabetic alert dog, used to detect low blood-sugar levels in diabetes patients. Picture: ESA ALEXANDER...
View ArticleGallery: BKB gutted after break-in
Damage to Paterson store set at R10m THE Paterson branch of the Boere Koöperasie Beperk (BKB) was gutted by fire yesterday shortly after a break-in at the premises. The damage is estimated at about...
View ArticleAlleged rapist’s face haunts teen’s nightmares
One of the more than 20 girls Peter Dashboy Khoza allegedly raped said she would never forget his face because it was in her nightmares. Khoza is on trial in the Johannesburg High Court sitting at the...
View ArticleUK woman butchered in Knysna home
POLICE have launched a manhunt after a British woman was murdered and her husband viciously attacked in their Knysna home. Police spokesman Captain Bernadine Steyn said a friend of the couple, whose...
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‘Geek chic’ makes odd characters cool
FRESH APPEAL:‘Geek’ activities are gaining new ground EVERYTHING from cos playing – dressing up in homemade costumes – to larping – living as another character for an entire weekend – is cool because...
View ArticlePolice ‘outmanned and outgunned’
IT is open season on police officers, with criminals fearless because they know police are poorly trained and equipped, and lack information through intelligence units. By yesterday, six police...
View ArticleDischarged Tutu’s cancer ‘well under control’
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was discharged from hospital on Tuesday and “will continue his recovery at home”‚ a statement from the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said. He had been...
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Presidency warns of impostors abusing Zuma’s name in job scam
PICTURE: GALLO IMAGES/THINKSTOCK The Presidency on Tuesday said it “wishes to alert company executives and the public about two impostors who abuse the name of President Jacob Zuma and the Presidency...
View ArticleDA drive to have Zuma removed from office
THE DA has started a parliamentary process to remove President Jacob Zuma from office because of the way President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was allowed to leave the country earlier this year in...
View ArticlePensioner found burnt to death in her house
A 72-year-old pensioner from Mdantsane‚ identified as Nomfazi Tshembese‚ was found burnt to death in her Potsdam house on Monday morning. Police said on Tuesday the woman was found on the floor of her...
View ArticlePregnant woman critical after four-storey plunge on construction site
A 26-year-old pregnant woman is in a critical condition after she fell four storeys at a construction site on Town Bush Road in Chase Valley‚ Pietermaritzburg‚ this morning‚ paramedics say. She...
View ArticleEast Cape hits high note in ‘Idols’ race
TEN of the 78 Idols SA finalists who head off to Sun City for the next phase of the reality television show, known as “Hell Week”, are from the Eastern Cape. Those who triumph there will make the Top...
View ArticleVideo: Smile week celebration
Little Suliaman Shaikh, who is two, enjoys the balloon decorations on the fifth floor of the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital provided to celebrate the start of Smile Week with his mom, Amreen. The...
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Bay filmmaker off to Toronto
GOING PLACES: Filmmaker Nokuzola Mntwapi’s moving feature-film script is taking her to the Toronto International Film Festival Moving script secures place in SA delegation GOING against her mother’s...
View ArticleDriver arrested after transporting 50 school children in Quantum
Patensie police arrested a 31-year-old driver who was transporting 50 school children in a 15-seater Toyota Quantum. The driver was arrested by Lt Loaan Steenkamp of the Patensie detective branch today...
View ArticleMain Library closed for almost a year
ELEVEN months after the Port Elizabeth Main Library was closed to the public to undergo maintenance work it is still unclear when it will reopen. The municipality needs a further R7-million to be able...
View ArticlePositive response to name proposal
COUNCILLORS have responded positively to a proposal from Port Elizabeth Opera House general manager Monde Ngonyama that three nearby streets be renamed, after theatre stalwarts Dr John Kani, Dr...
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Despatch reservoir has been ‘leaking for years’
SEE HOW IT RUNS: The road leading to Khayamnandi in Despatch where a municipal reservoir has been leaking for more than a decade, despite the fact that the town is facing a water crisis WHILE Despatch...
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PE to honour Rivonia trialists
Municipality plans memorial site featuring court and accused IN TATTERS: The outside of the Red Location Museum – dirty, dilapidated and run down. PICTURE: EUGENE COETZEE AN R8-million memorial site to...
View ArticleVIDEO: Provincial surgeons make history with op
SURGEONS in Port Elizabeth will make history today when they perform the first mandible distraction surgery in the province on the jaw of a four-year-old boy born with an extremely rare genetic...
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